Ifield railway station

Ifield National Rail
Location
Place Ifield
Local authority Crawley, West Sussex
Grid reference TQ250366
Operations
Station code IFI
Managed by Southern
Number of platforms 2
DfT category E
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2012/13 Increase 0.347 million
2013/14 Increase 0.356 million
2014/15 Decrease 0.354 million
2015/16 Decrease 0.349 million
2016/17 Decrease 0.288 million
History
1 June 1907 Opened (Lyons Crossing Halt)
6 July 1907 Renamed (Ifield Halt)
1 January 1917 Closed
3 May 1920 Reopened
6 July 1930[1] Renamed (Ifield)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Ifield from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Ifield railway station serves the neighbourhoods of Ifield and Gossops Green in the West Sussex town of Crawley, England. It is on the Arun Valley Line, 31 miles 66 chains (51.2 km) down the line from London Bridge, measured via Redhill.[2] Train services are provided by Southern.

History

The station was opened on 1 June 1907 as Lyons Crossing Halt, although it became known as Ifield Halt later that year. It was one of a series of unstaffed intermediate halts set up by the London Brighton and South Coast Railway, to be worked by rail motor trains. It became known simply as Ifield station from 1930.[3]

Services

The typical off peak service from the station is:

  • 2tph to Horsham
  • 2tph to Peterborough
Preceding station National Rail Following station
Crawley   Southern
Arun Valley Line		   Faygate
  Thameslink
Arun Valley Line
Mondays to Fridays only		  

References

  1. ↑ Butt, R.V.J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations, Patrick Stephens Ltd, Sparkford, ISBN 1-85260-508-1, p. 126.
  2. ↑ Yonge, John (November 2008) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald, ed. Railway Track Diagrams 5: Southern & TfL (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 19B. ISBN 978-0-9549866-4-3.
  3. ↑ Hudson, T.P. (ed.) (1987). "Ifield". A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 3: Bramber Rape (North-Eastern Part) including Crawley New Town. Oxford: Institute of Historical Research by Oxford University Press. pp. 53–60. ISBN 0-19-722768-6. Retrieved 2007-01-21.

Coordinates: 51°06′58″N 0°12′54″W / 51.116°N 0.215°W / 51.116; -0.215

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